The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2012
Date 7 November 2012
Location The Warburg Institute, London WC1
This year’s lecturer is Dr David Atkinson: “The Ballad and its Paradoxes”
The lecture is free and open to all but please let us know you’re coming by email to enquiries@folklore-society.com or by phone to 00 44 (0)207 862 8564. After the lecture, there will be a wine reception and buffet supper during we will announce the winner of this year’s Katharine Briggs Award and all the books entered for the competition will be on display.
Shortlist
- Dave Arthur, Bert: The Life and Times of A.L. Lloyd (Pluto)
- Regina Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem, eds, A Companion to Folklore (Wiley-Blackwell)
- R. Andrew Chesnut, Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Oxford University Press)
- Sara Hannant, Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids: A Journey through the English Ritual Year (Merrell)
- David Hopkin, Voices of the People in Nineteenth Century France (Cambridge University Press)
- Craig Koslofsky, Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press)
- Katherine Luongo, Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900-1950 (Cambridge University Press)
- Emily Lyle, ed., Galoshins Remembered: ‘A Penny Was a Lot in These Days’ (National Museums of Scotland)
- Mark Stoyle, The Black Legend of Prince Rupert’s Dog: Witchcraft and Propaganda during the English Civil War (University of Exeter Press)
- Marina Warner, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and The Arabian Nights (Chatto & Windus)
Attachments
- Download poster (pdf)